Discusion THREAD RE: raith scheduling reminder

[James Conway]

Ofur,

David's comment states the current policy well.  This is a topic of 
continuous discussion at our Ebeam Town Meetings.
Please keep individual reservation session below 8 hours.  If you wish 
for a 10 hour writing session then you should not reserve the system 
again for within the next ten day period.

I wish to stress to everyone that this pertains to reservations and not 
utilization on the system.
Regarding the recent downtime: Please maintain your reservations on the 
system I am working hard to get this system up for the weekend and next 
week.  All parties involved are doing their best to make this happen ASAP.

Thank you,

James

David Goldhaber-Gordon wrote:

>Dear Ofer,
>
>The reason that the Coral limit is 10 hours is because the Coral rules are
>not sufficiently subtle to accommodate the agreements of the Raith
>community. As John noted, the limit for reservations is 8 hours in the
>rolling 10 day period. There is no limit on usage, provided the system isn't
>fully booked -- if one books two four hour writes, then as soon as one
>finishes the first of the two writes, one can book a new four hour write.
>
>The exception to the hour limit is that a few users need a long single
>block of time for a write. They are allowed up to a 10 hour block. There's
>some compensating agreement, which I forget, about not being allowed to
>immediately book another 10 hour block.
>
>Thus, the Coral rules have been left looser to accommodate these different
>needs, but the community does a good job about playing by the rules we've
>agreed to together, and they've helped a lot in sharing a scarce resource.
>We should find a better way to advertise these agreements to new users.
>
>Let me know if you have any questions.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>David
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ofer Levi [mailto:levi at snowmass.stanford.edu] 
>Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 8:05 PM
>To: David Goldhaber-Gordon
>Cc: cumings at stanford.edu
>Subject: Fwd: raith scheduling reminder
>
>Dear David, 
>I recently started to use the Raith system for writing some photonic crystal
>sensor structures that we would like to couple to our VCSELs. 
>Today one of your students suggested that the policies for the Raith usage
>as shown in the Stanford Coral/policy section may not reflect what he
>thinks/knows the policy is. I wanted to bring it to your attention since
>generally Coral is very good in blocking you from booking any more time
>above the allowed quota and I am not sure what the story is in this case.
>
>Regards,
>Ofer
>
>
>
>Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 19:53:34 -0700
>To: cumings at stanford.edu
>From: Ofer Levi <levi at snow.stanford.edu>
>Subject: Re: raith scheduling reminder
>Cc: James Conway_Stanford
>Bcc: Ofer Levi
>
>Dear John, 
>I looked at the Raith guidelines as shown in the coral/policy system and
>they suggest that the reservation period is 10 days, and in it you can
>reserve up to 10 hours. This is why I reserved 9 hours in Coral for next
>week. 
>In any case, if this information is incorrect, I suggest that James should
>correct it on the coral system. 
>In addition, since it is on Monday morning and the system is down now, this
>may be an irrelevant point since I guess it will take time to fix the EO
>board. 
>
>James, Please advise about the correct policy for reservation on the Raith
>system. 
>
>Regards,
>Ofer
>
>
>At 04:03 PM 8/12/04 -0700, you wrote:
>
>Hi Ofer,
>
>You currently have 9 hrs of Raith time booked, but the user limit is 8 hrs.
>
>Just a friendly reminder - ;)
>
>-John 
>
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>Ofer Levi,      Ph.D. 
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>Ofer Levi,      Ph.D. 
>Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
>CIS-X Rm 310,  Stanford, CA 94305-4075
>
>Phone:                             (650)723-0464 or 725-6907
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